For a Social Bailout
Robin Blackburn : Economic Policy
Let's reinvent progressive economic policy, starting with our own sovereign wealth fund to deal with urgent social needs.
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The Gentlemen's Bailout
The Editors : Economic Policy
The power of Wall Street money and ideas must give way to a new public agenda to restore the real economy.
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Economic Chaos, Political Consequences
Nicholas von Hoffman : Presidential Election 2008
As the federal bailout of the banking industry continues, is it too much to ask that McCain, Clinton and Obama abandon their blue-sky promises and address reality?
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Subprime Obama
Max Fraser : Barack Obama
He should stiffen his meager bailout plan and call for a moratorium on foreclosures and serious government intervention.
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Playing Politics with Bankers
Robert Scheer : Dennis Kucinich
Now that Dennis Kucinich is out of the presidential debates, don't expect Clinton or Obama to hold unregulated bankers accountable for the global economic meltdown.
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Lawyers for the Poor Muzzled in Subprime Mess
Laura K. Abel : Housing Activism
Civil legal aid attorneys could have sounded the alarm years before the subprime scandal began destroying the lives of urban poor--but Congress wouldn't let them.
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United We Scam
Steve Fraser : U.S. Economy
Two new books profile the generation of counterfeiters and con men who sprouted up in Jacksonian-era America.
2007
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Subprime Politics
Keep people in their homes and start re-regulating the banking industry to end the conflicts of interest that fueled the debacle.
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Sovereign Wealth: Theirs, Not Ours
Nicholas von Hoffman : U.S. Economy
As the US economy sickens, foreign governments are on a shopping spree, scooping up bargains paid for by sovereign wealth funds.
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McMansions Meet the Mortgage Crisis
Homeowners in gated communities now facing foreclosure are learning there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.
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Citi's Mexican Cronies
As megabanks seek a subprime bailout, take a lesson from Mexico. Taxpayers of the world, hold on to your wallets.
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The Subprime Bailout
One way or another, banks will get taxpayer help to undo the subprime mess, but it won't be cheap. And the rest of us can bank on getting robbed in the process.
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The Coming Foreclosure Tsunami
As Congress grapples with the wave of foreclosures and bankruptcies resulting from the subprime mess, why are some Dems siding with the banks?
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The Housing Bubble Pops
To solve the subprime mortgage crisis, start with aid for vulnerable homeowners, smarter economic policies and a more competent Federal Reserve Board.
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The House that Hedge Funds Built
The rickety financial skyscaper known as the subprime mortgage business is ready to tumble--and the rest of us may be buried in the rubble.
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The Loan Shark Lobby
With Democrats in control of Congress, prospects for regulating subprime lenders have improved. But don't hold your breath.
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Credit Card Tricks
Nicholas von Hoffman : Economic Policy
Banks no longer lend money to people able to pay them back. Now they trap the poor, the sick, students and elderly people into signing up for credit cards and watch the fees pile up.
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Subprime Mortgage Blues
Nicholas von Hoffman : Housing Activism
As the housing market flattens, the poor pay the price for the greed and stupidity of real estate and banking bigwigs.
2006
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Temple of Mammon, Planet of Doom
Alexander Cockburn : World Economy
As we head into Summer 2006, the world capitalist system is out of control.
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Student Debts, Stunted Lives
Nicholas von Hoffman : Higher Education
As Congress jacks up the rates students and their parents are paying for college loans, the consequences are already being felt by young people whose ability to have a child or own a house is limited by debt.
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Credit Crunch
Mark Winston Griffith : Ethical Economics
New federal guidelines for banks and credit card companies that boost minimum monthly payments have wreaked havoc on American families struggling to pay their bills and avoid bankruptcy.
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Monetary Zombies
Nicholas von Hoffman : U.S. Economy
We're on our way to being a society of economic zombies, half dead and half alive, buried in debt but prevented by credit card companies from declaring bankruptcy.
2005
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Pop Goes the Real Estate Bubble
Nicholas von Hoffman : U.S. Economy
Stocks crash and housing prices tend to go down with a whisper. But a disturbing number of signs now point to a sudden burst of the real estate bubble.
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The Bank of Wal-Mart?
Sounds like an episode of The Simpsons, but this is for real: The retail giant wants even more of your money.
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Sins and the Citi
William Greider : Corporate Responsibility & Accountability
Where is the public's outrage over corruption in US finance and banking?
2002
2001
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'After Dirty Air, Dirty Money'
The Bush Administration has blocked efforts to rein in offshore banking of the sort that allows people like Osama bin Laden to hide their assets.
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Hank and Citibank--A Case in Point
The Bush Administration is blocking efforts to rein in offshore banking.
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